Enabling plugin
I am trying to install a plugin (Musescore 2.0.3., MacOS Yosemite).
I downloaded it and saved it in the plugin folder (Documents/Musscore2/plugins). I have verified that it is there.
According to the handbook I now need to "enable" it in the plugin manager. In there I find a list of all the pre-installed plugins and I suppose checking the checkbox enables them. However my desired plugin is not on that list. It came with an extension .qml.txt. I tried to delete the .txt because the handbook says it should be .qml. I restarted Musescore (with both extensions). Nothing made the plugin appear on that list.
What is it I am missing? I don't see any other steps described in the handbook.
Comments
Check again, whether it now has an extension of ".qml"
What plugin exactly? https://musescore.org/project/fixfingering ? That does have a proper .qml extension, so you might have added the .txt yourself (or your Mac did that for you)
In reply to Check again, whether it now by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, that one. It does now have the .qml extension. How the .txt got there I have no idea, but the computer opened it with textedit. I also checked the folder in preferences and it is correct.
In reply to Yes, that one. It does now by azumbrunn
Try opening it with the plugin editor and run it from there, at least that should show why it doesn't want to run
In reply to Try opening it with the by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for all your help. I finally got it to work by opening the file in a text editor, copy / pasting it into the window of the plugin creator and saving it from there.
I believe the handbook is rather short and incomplete about how to handle this.
BTW the original problem appears to be an Apple problem. The file that I had saved--and that didn't work--was greyed out when I tried to open it from Plugin Manager. The extra .txt extension was indeed added by MacOS during download (tested by repeating the download). Somehow deleting the ".txt" does not seem to remove all traces of it from the file. I guess this does not happen if the file is compressed.
In reply to Thanks for all your help. I by azumbrunn
Maybe due to some unexpected type of linefeeds?
If you can come up with a better description for handbook, just do it
In reply to Maybe due to some unexpected by Jojo-Schmitz
I am afraid I feel pretty wobbly about this and I am not sure enough what I am doing and what I am supposed to do in this area. I'll think about it though and maybe post a version for discussion.